Category: ISP

A very cool initiative from Belgacom, the Belgian historical operator. They provide a list of their hotspots as POI (Point of Interest) for the TomTom Navigator! Download: http://www.belgacom.be/web/Portal/hotspot/hotspot_gps.zip

[ xavier@0-moove 0 ] ~ $ host -t txt -c chaos version.bind ns1.francetelecom.netUsing domain server: Name: ns1.francetelecom.net Address: 193.252.96.218#53 Aliases: VERSION.BIND text “ATTENTION, Pourquoi voulez-vous cette information?” This was reported by a friend of mine 😉

I discovered some nice thing this afternoon… In my company, we are multi-homed since a few months. Our second provider provides us a 2Mbits pipe over a FastEthernet link in a colo… theorically! 🙂 Today, I got alarms due to a very high traffic coming from this ISP… Peaks up

A friend of mine sent me the following URLs: http://www.onewilshire.com/our_building/virtual_tour6.htm (the marketing point of view) and: http://www.tnarg.org/mmr.html(ithe operational point of view) Which one can we trust? 🙂

Today we had, one more time, the same problem: One of our customers who has a server in our colocation room, calls the support to report a problem with his server, “Please reboot it asap”. We request the onsite engineer to press the ‘magic button’. A few minutes later, new

I was browing the mail queue on one of our SMTP relays and saw a lot of emails pending for the springfieldford.com mx domain. Strange… I checked the MX records and got THIS! No comment! 🙂 [xavier@malaga]$ dig springfieldford.com mx ; > DiG 9.2.1 > springfieldford.com mx ;; global options:

Matrix NetSystems decided to shut down their ISP rating service on April 30! :-/ Matrix | NetSystems ISP Ratings

Are your data safely managed by your ISP? Do they have a strong backup politic? Sometimes a SLA (Service Level Aggreement) should be mandatory, read the story below: The Mousekaroos – Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

Please don’t play with Peer2Peer applications! Did you see the bill? 🙂

Found on www.theinquirer.net, this interesting article about the muliple AOL security flaws… AOL sets new record for (in)security.